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Lae Lae Shwe; Sureena Matayong; Suntorn Witosurapot – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are an important evaluation technique for both examinations and learning activities. However, the manual creation of questions is time-consuming and challenging for teachers. Hence, there is a notable demand for an Automatic Question Generation (AQG) system. Several systems have been created for this aim, but the…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Multiple Choice Tests
Wise, Steven L.; Soland, James; Dupray, Laurence M. – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2021
Technology-Enhanced Items (TEIs) have been purported to be more motivating and engaging to test takers than traditional multiple-choice items. The claim of enhanced engagement, however, has thus far received limited research attention. This study examined the rates of rapid-guessing behavior received by three types of items (multiple-choice,…
Descriptors: Test Items, Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests, Achievement Tests
Andrich, David; Marais, Ida – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2018
Even though guessing biases difficulty estimates as a function of item difficulty in the dichotomous Rasch model, assessment programs with tests which include multiple-choice items often construct scales using this model. Research has shown that when all items are multiple-choice, this bias can largely be eliminated. However, many assessments have…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Guessing (Tests), Test Bias
Albacete, Patricia; Silliman, Scott; Jordan, Pamela – Grantee Submission, 2017
Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), like human tutors, try to adapt to student's knowledge level so that the instruction is tailored to their needs. One aspect of this adaptation relies on the ability to have an understanding of the student's initial knowledge so as to build on it, avoiding teaching what the student already knows and focusing on…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Knowledge Level, Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
Sun, Bo; Zhu, Yunzong; Xiao, Yongkang; Xiao, Rong; Wei, Yungang – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2019
In recent years, computerized adaptive testing (CAT) has gained popularity as an important means to evaluate students' ability. Assigning tags to test questions is crucial in CAT. Manual tagging is widely used for constructing question banks; however, this approach is time-consuming and might lead to consistency issues. Automatic question tagging,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Student Evaluation, Test Items, Multiple Choice Tests
Patsula, Liane N.; Steffen, Mandred – 1997
One challenge associated with computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is the maintenance of test and item security while allowing for daily testing. An alternative to continually creating new pools containing an independent set of items would be to consider each CAT pool as a sample of items from a larger collection (referred to as a VAT) rather than…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Item Banks, Multiple Choice Tests
Segall, Daniel O. – 1999
Two new methods for improving the measurement precision of a general test factor are proposed and evaluated. One new method provides a multidimensional item response theory estimate obtained from conventional administrations of multiple-choice test items that span general and nuisance dimensions. The other method chooses items adaptively to…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Item Response Theory, Measurement Techniques
Samejima, Fumiko – 1981
In defense of retaining the "latent trait theory" term, instead of replacing it with "item response theory" as some recent research would have it, the following objectives are outlined: (1) investigation of theory and method for estimating the operating characteristics of discrete item responses using a minimum number of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Factor Analysis, Latent Trait Theory
Potenza, Maria T.; Stocking, Martha L. – 1994
A multiple choice test item is identified as flawed if it has no single best answer. In spite of extensive quality control procedures, the administration of flawed items to test-takers is inevitable. Common strategies for dealing with flawed items in conventional testing, grounded in the principle of fairness to test-takers, are reexamined in the…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Multiple Choice Tests, Scoring
Sykes, Robert C.; Ito, Kyoko – 1995
Whether the presence of bidimensionality has any effect on the adaptive recalibration of test items was studied through live-data simulation of computer adaptive testing (CAT) forms. The source data were examinee responses to the 298 scored multiple choice items of a licensure examination in a health care profession. Three 75-item part-forms,…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics)
Samejima, Fumiko – 1984
Simple sum procedure of the conditional PDF approach (plausiblity of distractor function) combined with the normal approach method was applied for estimating the plausibility functions of the distractors of the Level II vocabulary subtest items of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. In so doing, the normal ogive model was adopted for the correct…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Item Analysis
Linacre, John M. – 1987
This paper describes a computer program in Microsoft BASIC which selects and administers test items from a small item bank. The level of the difficulty of the item selected depends on the test taker's previous response. This adaptive system is based on the Rasch model. The Rasch model uses a unit of measurement based on the logarithm of the…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level, Individual Testing

Kent, Thomas H.; Albanese, Mark A. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1987
Two types of computer-administered unit quizzes in a systematic pathology course for second-year medical students were compared. Quizzes composed of questions selected on the basis of a student's ability had higher correlations with the final examination than did quizzes composed of questions randomly selected from topic areas. (Author/JAZ)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level
Plake, Barbara S.; Wise, Steven L. – 1986
One question regarding the utility of adaptive testing is the effect of individualized item arrangements on examinee test scores. The purpose of this study was to analyze the item difficulty choices by examinees as a function of previous item performance. The examination was a 25-item test of basic algebra skills given to 36 students in an…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algebra, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing

Vale, C. David; Weiss, David J. – 1977
Twenty multiple-choice vocabulary items and 20 free-response vocabulary items were administered to 660 college students. The free-response items consisted of the stem words of the multiple-choice items. Testees were asked to respond to the free-response items with synonyms. A computer algorithm was developed to transform the numerous…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Aptitude Tests
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